Deputies: Suspect, her child found unconscious with suicide note

Woman was facing charges in Greenville County

A woman who was wanted on a breach of trust charge in Greenville County was found unconscious along with her 10-year-old daughter when deputies went to serve the arrest warrant, according to the police report.

Anderson County deputies went to Julie Ann Kelley’s apartment on Saluda Drive in Piedmont last Thursday to serve the breach of trust arrest warrant on Kelley, who was employed by Greenville Hospital System Credit Union.

The incident report said that a deputy found Kelley and her daughter in an upstairs bedroom. The deputy said that Kelley and the child were unresponsive and there was a suicide note at the foot of the bed.

Chad McBride, with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, said, "The deputy -- being persistent in his job, trying to locate Ms. Kelley with the outstanding warrant -- was definitely crucial in saving her life and her daughter's life.

"Luckily, whatever feeling he got, and sometimes we do get -- we do sense things and feel things that maybe are out of the ordinary -- and I think that maybe played a part in this to him actually this time needing to get into that residence and found them unresponsive."

Kelley and her daughter were taken to Greenville Memorial for treatment of drug overdoses. Investigators said Kelley and her daughter have both since recovered.

Investigators said Kelley was employed at the Greenville Hospital System Credit Union. Police said Kelley resigned and supervisors checked her drawer, and said she had taken more than $7,000 in cash from Oct. 2012 to Dec. 2012. They said she also cashed two checks at the credit union with insufficient funds.

Kelley is being held in the Greenville County Detention Center on the breach of trust charge, with a hold for an attempted murder charge in Anderson County.

News 4 has learned that Kelley’s child is being cared for by a family member.

"It could have definitely went another direction and, especially for the child, we're very thankful that our deputy was persistent in his actions and was able to locate the two," McBride said.

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